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Jackie Balzer

Jackie is a web developer living in Brooklyn, NY. She works across the river in Manhattan at Adobe as the Head of Front End Development at Behance, the world's leading online platform for showcasing and discovering creative work.

The website simultaneously exists and does not exist. This is the paradox of building user-customizable responsive layouts for a website builder like Adobe Portfolio. Users can customize their website infinitely without writing any code, and Portfolio will generate a fully responsive website with all of their content and customizations. But how can a developer write the markup and styles for a website, and make it responsive, without first knowing what it will look like? As the head of front end development, my primary task was to find a solution to this exact problem. This talk will tell the tale of how we used advanced Sass functionality and computer science techniques to build websites that both existed (the default layout) and did not yet exist (the fully customized version), and how these techniques can be useful in any development workflow.

CSSConf Budapest welcomes everybody. Please, be excellent to each other, and read our Code of Conduct so that we are on the same page on what excellent means.

Since the prototype, CSSConf US, was started by Nicole Sullivan in 2013, the CSSConf family has expanded around the globe. CSSConf US in New York and CSSConf EU in Berlin are going into their third year. CSSConf Australia in Melbourne, CSSConf Asia in Singapore, and CSSConf Oakland debuted in 2014. In 2016, two new members will join the family of events: CSSConf Nordic, and yours truly, CSSConf Budapest. All CSSConf event organizer teams share the vision of an international, diverse and creative CSS community, for which the CSSConf series offers a platform to meet, hack, share knowledge and build friendships.